From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/57625 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Greiner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Problems when upgrading newsrc from 5.9 to No Gnus Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 11:02:14 -0500 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1085155360 16812 80.91.224.253 (21 May 2004 16:02:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 16:02:40 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M6165@lists.math.uh.edu Fri May 21 18:02:31 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BRCTf-00012P-00 for ; Fri, 21 May 2004 18:02:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BRCTZ-0005M3-00; Fri, 21 May 2004 11:02:25 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BRCTV-0005Lw-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 21 May 2004 11:02:21 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BRCTQ-0007EW-9s for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 21 May 2004 11:02:16 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (quimby.gnus.org [80.91.224.244]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C65673A0041 for ; Fri, 21 May 2004 11:02:15 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BRCTP-0003PR-00 for ; Fri, 21 May 2004 18:02:15 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 35 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: h-66-134-21-51.hstqtx02.covad.net Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1085155335 13108 66.134.21.51 (21 May 2004 16:02:15 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 16:02:15 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:HmGUU9OH4+lNrKLq39jT9NMh6vU= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57625 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57625 Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de> writes: > [ Taking this from gnu.emacs.help to ding... ] > > On Thu, May 20 2004, Miles Bader wrote: > > ,----[ ] > | I tried it out on a lark today (while setting up the gnus arch archive), > | and it flaked out pretty badly, undefined variable errors, couldn't read > | mail (got it from the server, but failed to store it in my mail > | folders!). I even thought it trashed my .newsrc.eld file for a while -- > | it asked if I wanted to "upgrade" that file (irreversibly), recommended > | I make a backup, and when I realized I'd better go back to 5.9, the > | backup had been deleted! Luckily it turned out that the "upgrade" had > | failed too... :-) > `---- > > ,----[ ] > | BTW, about the .newsrc "upgrade" -- as I mentioned, it asked me, and > | then failed to actually change anything. > | > | One thing that's funny about my Gnus setup is that I don't use a > | .newsrc file -- I only have have a .newsrc.eld file. Should the > | upgrade process cope with that situation? > `---- > > It should work, I think. But I'm not familiar with > `gnus-convert-old-newsrc' and friends. Thanks for the heads-up. I posted a response to Miles on gnu.emacs.help to add some finality to that thread. I'll see what I can do to make the conversion messages clearer. Kevin